Artifice Quote by James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems…

— James Joyce

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be…

— Anonymous

“The poet will be discontented even in the streets of heaven. The poet is always in revolt." "There again," said Syme irritably, "what is…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the…

— Charles Bukowski

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine…

— Stephen King

“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no!…

— Gustave Flaubert

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel